Kurt Lilien

{{short description|German actor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = Kurt Lilien postcard by Arnold Mocsigay (extracted).jpg | image_size = | caption = Lilien {{circa}} 1915 | name = Kurt Lilien | birth_name = Kurt Lilienthal | birth_date = {{birth date|1882|8|6|df=yes}} | birth_place = Berlin, Germany | death_date = {{death date and age|1943|5|28|1882|8|6|df=yes}} | death_place = Sobibor extermination camp, Lubelskie, Poland | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1919–1933 }}

'''Kurt Lilien''' (born '''Kurt Lilienthal'''; 6 August 1882 – 28 May 1943) was a German actor.<ref name="filmportal">{{cite web |url=http://www.filmportal.de/en/person/kurt-lilien_f30307592a622226e03053d50b375262 |title=Kurt Lilien |access-date=17 July 2013 |work=Film Portal}}</ref> He appeared in 50 films between 1919 and 1933. Lilien was born into a Jewish family, Lilien would be arrested and sent to Sobibor extermination camp by the Nazis where he was murdered in 1943.<ref>[http://db.yadvashem.org/names/nameDetails.html?itemId=3927456&language=de Yad Vashem: The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names]</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''A Crazy Night'' (1927) * ''The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin'' (1927) * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) * ''Hocuspocus'' (1930) * ''Die zärtlichen Verwandten'' (1930) * ''Flachsmann the Educator'' (1930) * ''Susanne Cleans Up'' (1930) * ''My Leopold'' (1931) * ''The Soaring Maiden'' (1931) * ''Bobby Gets Going'' (1931) * ''Weekend in Paradise'' (1931) * ''Every Woman Has Something'' (1931) * ''Grock'' (1931) * ''My Heart Longs for Love'' (1931) * ''The Secret of the Red Cat'' (1931) * ''A Woman Branded'' (1931) * ''Headfirst into Happiness'' (1931) * ''When the Soldiers'' (1931) * ''I'll Stay with You'' (1931) * ''Johnny Steals Europe'' (1932) * ''The Testament of Cornelius Gulden'' (1932) * ''Two Hearts Beat as One'' (1932) * ''Scandal on Park Street'' (1932) * ''Gitta Discovers Her Heart'' (1932) * ''The Tsar's Diamond'' (1932) * ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1932) * ''Greetings and Kisses, Veronika'' (1933) * ''The Roberts Case'' (1933) * ''Manolescu, Prince of Thieves'' (1933) * ''What Women Dream'' (1933) * ''And Who Is Kissing Me?'' (1933) * ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' (1938) (German original dub) {{div col end}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0510227|Kurt Lilien}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lilien, Kurt}} Category:1882 births Category:1943 deaths Category:German male film actors Category:German male silent film actors Category:German male stage actors Category:German male musical theatre actors Category:20th-century German male actors Category:Jewish German male actors Category:German Jews who died in the Holocaust Category:German people who died in Sobibor extermination camp Category:German male comedians Category:Male actors from Berlin Category:Comedians from Berlin